149th Street Harlem Station

[sailormatlac]

Matt,
I love the weathering on the boxcars and convors!

I still have never weathered any of my boxcars.....is an airbrush necessary?...if so I need to get one

Steve,

I'm amidst a weathering spree right now, turning out 5 cars per day. Fortunately, only 15 to go.

An airbrush is handing but not required at all if you use oil, pastel and weathering powder, To some extent, you have much more control over what you are doing. But Dullcote is required. There's a lot of tutorial online about weathering without an airbrush. Personaly, I do both, but wouldn't say one method is superior. It's always a mix of several layers: fading the paint, adding grime, weathering small details, etc.

If you have some junk cars, try your hand on it, find a good prototype picture and give it a try. It's far less intimidating it looks and given your era, you don't have to go overboard with rust buckets.

Weathering in the steam era/transition era is far less tricky.

Matt